special project grants for health of school and preschool children

special project grants for health of school and preschool children Sec. 205. Part 4 of title V of the Social Security Act is amended (1) by revising the heading thereof to read as follows: “Part 4—Grants for Special Maternity and Infant Care Projects, for Projects for Health of School and Preschool Children, and for Research Projects”; (2) by redesignating section 532 as section 533; and (3) by inserting after section 531 the following new section: “special project grants for health of school and preschool children “Sec. 532. (a) In order to promote the health of children and youth of school or preschool age, particularly in areas with concentrations of low-income families, t lie re are authorized to be appropriated $15,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1966, $35,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1967, $40,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1968, $45,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1969, and $50,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1970, for grants as provided in this section. “(b) From the sums appropriated pursuant to subsection (a), the Secretary is authorized to make grants to the State health agency of any State and (with the consent of such agency) to the health agency of any political subdivision of the State, to the State agency of the State administering or supervising the administration of the State plan approved under section 513, to any school of medicine (with appropriate participation by a school of dentistry), and to any teaching hospital affiliated with such a school, to pay not to exceed 75 per centum of the cost of projects of a comprehensive nature for health 79 Stat. 355care and services for children and youth of school age or for preschool children (to help them prepare to start school). No project shall be eligible for a grant, under this section unless it provides (1) for the coordination of health care and services provided under it with, and utilization (to the extent feasible) of, other State or local health, welfare, and education programs for such children, (2) for payment of the reasonable cost (as determined in accordance with standards approved by the Secretary) of inpatient hospital services provided under the project? and (3) that any treatment, correction of defects, or aftercare provided under the project is available only to children who would not otherwise receive it because they are from low-income families or for other reasons beyond their control; and no such project for children and youth of school age shall be considered to be of a comprehensive nature for purposes of this section unless it includes (subject to the limitation in the preceding provisions of this sentence) at least such screening, diagnosis, preventive services, treatment, correction of defects, and aftercare, both medical and dental, as may be provided for in regulations of the Secretary. “(c) Payment of grants under this section may be made (after necessary adjustment on account of previously made underpayments or overpayments) in advance or by way of reimbursement, and in such installments and on such conditions, as the Secretary may determine.”